An authentic family saga taking place over 140 years, The Man His Father Was brings to life some of early America's most memorable events and noteworthy personalities.

With documented appearances by both the famous and infamous -- including colonial patriarchs, military leaders, Indian sachems, inventors, murderers, itinerant preachers, healers, educators, and a brilliant and beautiful poetess whose sparkling works have only recently been rediscovered -- this is a rags-to-riches-to-rags epic that demolishes the notion that our forefathers were uniformly pious and cheerless. And most of the story is true.